The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader

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What is the relationship between gender and consumerism? Jennifer Scanlon gathers a collection of readings and archival materials to explore the multiple and contradictory ways in which women and men consume. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in scope, The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader introduces the reader to some of the most compelling issues and arguments in this growing field of study. In questioning traditional ways of analyzing the relationships between gender and consumer culture, these essays analyze the liberatory and oppressive nature of consumer culture in both historical and contemporary contexts.

The scholars gathered here look at the gendered relationship between the home and consumer culture, individual and group identity through purchasing, the supply side of consumer culture, and the ways in which consumers embrace, resist, and manipulate the messages and the activities of consumer culture. Topics range from white middle-class female shoplifters to the gendered depiction of Native Americans in nineteenth-century advertising, from gay men's acquisition of domestic space in early twentieth-century New York to black and Latino men's cultural resistance through dress. Archival materials link the essays in each section, creating a further historical context, and providing a connection between the readings and larger questions and issues currently being debated about gender and consumer culture.

Contributors include Andrew Heinze, Erika Rappaport, George Chauncey, Steven M. Gelber, Jeffrey Steele, Ann McClintock, Robert E. Weems, Jr., Lillian Faderman, Malcolm Gladwell, Jennifer Scanlon, Lizabeth Cohen, Jane Bryce, Susan J. Douglas, Kenon Breazeale, Kathy Peiss, Elaine S. Abelson, Natasha B. Barnes, Danae Clark, Stuart Cosgrove.

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Interesting.......2002-05-19

Most of the time, this reads like a text book--or at least some sort of book you'd have for a class. But that's not a bad thing. This just isn't something you pick up just for fun. You have to be interested.

I have a growing interest in women's studies, so anything releating to gender is of interest to me. Most of the essays in this book are interesting glimpses of small aspects of gender (often coupled with race or class, sometimes in historical contexts) in the consumer culture. The specialized information is very interesting, and the accompanying pictures and graphics add to it.

Some of the contributions, however, are rather dull. Don't be afraid to skip something you don't want to read. Just go to the next article. Chances are, you won't be missing much.

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This digital document is an article from Resources for Feminist Research, published by O.I.S.E. on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Cynthia Wright
Publication: Resources for Feminist Research (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: O.I.S.E.
Page: 254(4)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading America from a wheelchair; Genghis Khan, conquering Central Asia until he died in a riding accident; Nelson Mandela, teaching freedom through prison walls: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 leaders, rulers, and activists from around the world. The volume includes lesser-known, yet important, individuals such as Chin Shih Huang, the emperor who reunified China, and Hatshepsut, queen of ancient Egyptian dynasty. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, illuminating their enduring impact on the common understanding, and fundamental themes, of human existence.

Statesmen Who Changed the World (Turning Points in History)

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Statesmen Who Changed the World (Turning Points in History)
Philip Wilkinson , and Jacqueline Dineen
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy

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Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy

Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Statesmen Who Changed the World provides extensive essays on more than 70 statesmen of the Western world, covering the time period from the 15th century to the present. Some of the statesmen included were heads of state; others held ministerial positions in foreign affairs; a few were neither heads of state nor foreign ministers. All influenced or changed the world in which they lived. Each essay includes a thorough and insightful biographical sketch covering the subject's life and career with particular emphasis on the subject's involvement in international affairs. In addition, each essay provides a bibliographical essay describing the available archival materials, works written by and about the subject, and the most recent scholarship. It concludes with a bibliographical checklist. Appendixes include glossaries of terms and a listing of heads of state. The book is fully indexed.

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Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy
Editor-Frank W. Thackeray; Editor-John E. Findling
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTN7WU

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The research and policy dialogue of Tanzania's National Capacity Assessment Team, a World Bank initiated body, forms the basis of this analysis. The assessment team's remit was to identify strategic capacity needs, when capacity is understood as the human and institutional resources necessary for development. The study identifies that capacity needs are interlinked and require an integrated approach: strengthening government agencies is impossible in the long term without improvement in professional training; private sector growth requires access to business information, communication and regulatory and judicial institutions. Accordingly, the analysis provides an overview, and formulates strategies for public and private sector institutions and infrastructures, civil society and education. Particular regard is given to: finance and economic management of the public sector; the civil service; the role of donors and the need for corrective action in local and regional administration and across the education system.

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interesting, pretty pictures, but blah

The landscape through a child's eyes

I loved it!

The Geography of Childhood (The Concord Library)
Gary Paul Nabhan
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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ASIN: 0807085251

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Why Children Need Wild Places

In this unique collaboration, two naturalists ask what may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wildness than at any other time in human history.

"This thoughtful presentation, testifying to children's need for direct contact with nature, has value for parents and those who work with children."
-Publishers Weekly

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interesting, pretty pictures, but blah.......2004-03-21

As the reader breebree mentioned, it is more of a reflection and definitely not a guide to parenting. I found this book to have interesting insights as the authors thought back to their childhoods with a different perspective, and observed the reactions of their children and those of others to their landscape. There were a bunch of cute little nostalgic tales but not a lot of impact. There are messages in there, but they're diffuse. I wish they had put more emphasis on their points or otherwise offered a more concrete discussion than just offering personal examples, muse a bit, and leave it there. It gave enough perspective to discuss our childhoods in small groups but beyond that I didn't find much use for this book.

I was even more disappointed when I discovered that many of Nabhan's stories were presented in Cultures of Habitiat, a book tat was printed later but I had read first.

This is a rambling, musing, anecdotal, diffusely reflective book. Not my cup of tea.

The landscape through a child's eyes.......2000-04-29

Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble have penned a fine collection of essays on how children perceive and play in their environment. References are made to psychological studies that support a child's need for wild places, but the real value I see in this book comes from the authors' own anecdotal experiences with their children. If you are a parent of small children, you will especially enjoy the ideas you will get for places to take children to play and explore. Read this book and you will begin to learn why children need to experience wild places. And why, as adults, if we share the "hands-on" experiences with our kids, our own connection to the landscape becomes more deeply rooted.

I loved it!.......2000-02-09

At first glance, this book seems to be another in a long line of published material telling parents how to be good parents. But it really seemed like a personal reflection of what makes life great through a child's eyes. Instead of trying to raise a child through adult methods, this book shows that through simply remembering what being a child was and why it was fun is enough to help you understand what your child is thinking. Through this understanding, you will become a great parent. I was very pleased with my purchase and recommend this book to anyone that has had any contact with children.

Hangchow, My Home: Growing Up in Heaven Below

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Hangchow, My Home: Growing Up in Heaven Below
Eugenia Barnett Schultheis
Manufacturer: Lost Coast Press
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Marco Polo called Hangchow (Hangzhou) "the greatest city on Earth." The people of China call it "Heaven Below." 'Hangchow, My Home' recalls the city as it was experienced by a young American girl growing up there in the early 1900s. this memoir brings to life a child's view of the historic city, its beautiful surroundings and its people, both chinese and Western. enriched by the author's extensive study of Hangchow history and culture, this book provides the reader insights into the real China and its transition to the modern world.

Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity

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A comfortable read that stirs memories
she put the "awe" in "ev-awe-cative"
Another home run for Mary Gordon

Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity
Mary Gordon
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0684862549

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This rich and revealing book, from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, is part memoir, part study of the shaping of a writer's voice. Using the example of her own life, Mary Gordon investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections between where we live and who we are, between how we experience place and how we become ourselves. With wisdom, humor, and intelligence, Gordon illuminates the relationship between the physical, emotional, and intellectual architectures of our lives.

Each of the eight essays focuses on a different place or series of spaces from an era in Mary Gordon's life: from her youth, growing up Catholic and on the "wrong side of the tracks" to her present life as an accomplished author and teacher at Barnard College. Gordon writes of the spaces -- both architectural and emotional -- that were central to her childhood: her grandmother's house, which stood at the center of life for the extended family and whose physical design helped Gordon understand her grandmother, her mother, and ultimately herself; her baby-sitter's house, where Gordon observed the domestic rituals of a family different from her own; and the mysterious house next door, which unlike her own space of "female habitation" was largely defined by the lives of boys.

Gordon also focuses on the significant influence of the more public locations she found when she grew up and wandered farther afield: the sacred spaces of the priests who were a kind of extended family to the Gordons; the alluring spaces of Barnard and the Upper West Side, which symbolized a life of intellect and affluence to which she aspired; and the city of Rome, where she began to mature as a writer. And she writes of one house that's been central to her adulthood and writing -- a Cape Cod, Massachusetts, rental -- and the significance of borrowing someone else's private space for her own introspections.

In vibrant, poetic prose, Mary Gordon navigates readers through these worlds she has inhabited, at the same time revealing herself with subtlety and style. In this stunning collection of linked essays, we come to see how integral places are to the lessons we come to learn -- about family, work, religion, love, and loss -- and the far-reaching power places ultimately have in influencing a life.

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Mary Gordon, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections between how we experience place and how we become ourselves. From her grandmother's house, which stood at the center of her childhood life, to a rented house on Cape Cod, where she began to mature as a writer, Mary Gordon navigates the reader through these spaces and worlds with subtlety and style. Wise, humorous, and intelligent, Seeing Through Places illuminates the relationship between the physical, emotional, and intellectual architectures of our lives, showing us the far-reaching power that places ultimately have in influencing a life.

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disappointing.......2007-09-30

I was very disappointed with this book. While the idea is intriguing, essays set around the theme of place I found the tone overly self indulgent and whiny, similar to Gordon's previous and also disappointing memoir, the Shadow Man. While the portrait of her mother was intriguing, the rest just didn't have enough insight to carry me through and at times, Gordon feels compelled to be so self revealing (telling the world that she likes to do her reading topless) that it's positively embarassing.

A comfortable read that stirs memories.......2003-01-14

If you've ever longed to return to a place from your past, Mary Gordon gently explores why. With memories that are sometimes sad, she connects how place figures into who we love and how we make decisions later on in life. Her chapters are houses that serve as an eclectic garden tour, and which, in the end, make her whole. This is reason enough to read the book, but I love what she says place does for her as a writer. While on vacation last year, I sat in a carribean resort bar before it opened and began to write. The place was red-walled, with black and white accents, and no one would expect that suddenly, this place would be where the words I'd been struggling to put down poured out. And so, as I writer, I shared Gordon's thoughts about falling in love with a place that was not hers to own, but one she would remain connected to forever because it was a place "in which you have written happily and well."

she put the "awe" in "ev-awe-cative".......2000-02-07

The first essay, "Grandmother's house", made me shut the book and just gaze for minutes at a time. In reading about her childhood, she forced me to revisit my own "places" before I could come back to hers. Rereading her prose is so pleasurable; it 's like glancing twice at an attractive stranger on a street. The first and last essays seemed the most personal, the best "placement" for them. Everyone should reflect upon her life's places after savoring this book.

Another home run for Mary Gordon.......2000-01-29

Seeing through places is enchanting. Full of the sharp insight and beautiful description I've come to expect from Mary Gordon. A pleasure to read.

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Wonderful, Eloquent, Funny
Charmed

Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
Robert B. Stepto
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807009458

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"Through loosely linked, informal essays Stepto . . . traces his own past through his family's history and migrations. . . These evocative meditations on home and the family are thoughtful and moving." -Publisher's Weekly "[A] graceful family memoir. . . . [Stepto] wonderfully evokes the delights and confusions of childhood." -Laura Green, The New York Times Book Review "A book . . . [where] eloquence is the essential ingredient. A major waterway for our national journey." -Michael S. Harper, author of Songlines: Mosaics; Dear John, Dear Coltrane; and Images of Kin "Blue as the Lake is a lyrical memoir rendered with precision, grace, and intimacy. Stepto takes us on a 'blues-ride' through places . . . which are locations in his personal geography but also special places in the collective memory and history of African Americans." -Mary Helen Washington, editor of Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds

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Wonderful, Eloquent, Funny.......2001-05-12

Bob Stepto, a professor at Yale University, recalls his early youth growing up in Chicago and spending summers at a nearby lake community. He weaves his stories of the lake, school, his family and his African American community into a seamless tapestry filled with humor and warmth. Stepto is a great story teller. Don't miss it.

Charmed.......2000-05-14

When I began the book, I knew the author was a sophisticated man, a professor at Yale. As I read, I discovered the depth of his observations of his life. I was awed by his understanding of what was going on around him and his wonderful way of expressing it.

What could have been just another light little book became both easy reading and deep. It exposed something of the author's soul without being maudlin or trying to find meaning that was not there.

I enjoyed the book so much, I read it again immediately to find the parts I missed the first time.

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Early Childhood: When Learning Begins, Geography, With Activities for Children Ages 2 to 5 Years of Age
Carol Sue Fromboluti , and Carol Seefeldt
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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50 Simple Things You Can Do to Raise a Child Who Loves History and Geography (50 Simple Things Series)
Anne Stribling
Manufacturer: Arco Pub
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Simple, fun activities that can give 3- to 8-year-olds a head start on learning and life skills!How can you get your young child to love history and geography? This guide has fifty great answers! Created by a distinguished educator, this book presents fifty simple, fun, parent-child activities that can help kids develop a love of learning. For each activity, easy-to-follow instructions tell parents what to do, what materials they'll need, how long the activity will take, and how to encourage the child to want to find out more.Anne Stribling, a history major and social studies textbook writer, holds a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education.

Manual On Infections & Immunizations In Children (Oxford Medical Publications)

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Manual On Infections & Immunizations In Children (Oxford Medical Publications)
PETER, ED. RUDD
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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This handbook provides an authoritative summary of the important childhood infections and gives simple, practical advice on current immunization and treatment. It is aimed in particular at family practitioners, clinical medical officers, and nurses who see these infections and who carry out
childhood immunizations. It is also appropriate for pediatricians. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. The treatment of meningitis and of bone and joint infections have been added to the clinical problems; listeriosis and cryptosporidia have been added to the diseases covered.
There are new sections on the handling of vaccines and on parental counseling. There is also a question and answer section on practical immunization.

Early childhood, where learning begins: Geography : with activities for children ages 2 to 5 years of age

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Early childhood, where learning begins: Geography : with activities for children ages 2 to 5 years of age
Carol Sue Fromboluti
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Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People

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Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People
Stuart Aitken
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415411459

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This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its kind, it does not seek to dwell solely on the abiding complexities of local comparisons. Rather, it elaborates larger concerns about the changing nature of childhood, young peopleÂ's experiences, their citizenship and the embodiment of their political identities as they are embedded in the processes of national development and globalization. In particular, this book concentrates on three main issues: nation building and developing children, child participation and activism in the context of development, and globalization and childrenÂ's live in the context of what has been called the end of development. These are relatively broad research perspectives that find focus in what the authors term reproducing and developing children as a key issue of national and global concern. They further argue that understanding children and reproduction is key to understanding globalization.

Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

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Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
Panelli/Punch/R
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This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely linked, but basically independent, chapters. In this case, the book presents both thematically organised case studies and co-authored commentaries that integrate and advance current understandings and debates about rural childhood and youth.

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